Title :
Social Capital in Virtual Organizations
Author :
Alqithami, Saad ; Hexmoor, Henry
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, IL, USA
Abstract :
In this fast growing world, rapid alterations in technologies result in having a huge influence on humans´ standard of living, increase global opportunities and globalize shareholders´ activities. Executives all over the world are expected to utilize the right technology in order to gain the high level of success for their organizations. These executives require sustainable knowledge, techniques and tools that will allow them to continue to advance and remain ahead of the competition in the business environment. In this paper, we consider the techniques that will give a clear analysis of how social capital can be created within virtual teams or organizations and what value is created with the help of social capital. It will help organizations to examine the type of value they already created with social capital and its reflection in the future.
Keywords :
knowledge management; organisational aspects; social networking (online); business environment competition; global opportunity; shareholder activity globalization; social capital; sustainable knowledge; virtual organization; virtual team; Companies; Cultural differences; Humans; Standards organizations; Virtual groups; Social capital; Virtual organization; organizational growth; trust;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS), 2012 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bucharest
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2279-9
DOI :
10.1109/iNCoS.2012.124